She was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2007 to 2011, representing the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga.
She has also chaired the Education Foundation golf classic, raising money for literacy and numeracy initiatives.
She and her husband, Richard, have lived in Conestogo, just outside Kitchener, and is a vice-principal at Sir John A. MacDonald Public School.
[3] On October 30, 2007, she was named the parliamentary assistant to the Minister Responsible for Women's Issues, Deb Matthews.
She was the co-chair of the Working Group on Financial Literacy, tasked with submitting a report to the curriculum council with recommendations on how to seamlessly integrate financial literacy into the Ontario curriculum from Grades 4 to 12.